DID you learn to speak early? Good language skills?

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Depends what you mean. I learned to repeat words at 6 months old, and learned a large vocabulary, at an earlier than normal age. However, by preschool and through first grade or so, I was being sent to hearing and speech specialists by the schools, because I was behind my peers in speaking and understanding speech. I don't have many details because my mom was in denial that anything was wrong with me, and would barely tell me even that much when I was older. I believe that I was echolalic.

I started talking at 1 year. My first word was either "cookie" or "dad" depending on who you ask. All through grade school I was reading and spelling at high school or higher levels. However, the one time I participated in a spelling bee I got overwhelmed and couldn't spell the word... things like that always happened so I felt like a stupid smart person.

I spoke at the average time. I was taught to read at 2- father was a teacher.

However, yesterday I was reminded of a memory of when I had just turned 5. I had a friend I would play with who lived down the road. One day I had a fight with her, and I was sitting there thinking about how mean she was, so I got some paper out and a pencil, and wrote a letter to her, saying how mean she was and how I didnt like her and how I didnt like it when she said mean things to me. I had her name at the top of the letter and everything.

That evening my parents got a phone call from the girls father saying "My daughter is in tears because of a nasty letter she got from your daughter."

I am surprised they could read it, but thinkiing about it now, most five-year olds are just learning to write, and would never write a letter to someone. It was likely spelled correctly too, though my handwriting would not have been very good. I dont think I had even started school yet..

My parents say that i started talking early. With reading, however, i was a tiny bit behind at first. In first grade my parents got me a reading tutor, and then eventually it just clicked(and my first grade teacher thought i was "slow" hahaha... although she was probably on to something being concerned about me not interacting normally with peers, making eye contact, etc.). From then on i was always way above grade level in reading. Oh, and even when i didn't know how to read yet, i often memorized the books my mom would read to me and i would "read" them along with her from what i'd memorized. In school i never really liked to read, because the teachers always forced everyone to. I didn't like being told to read this or that. Anyway... I always had a good vocabulary for my age.. But i didn't talk much when i was little, except to family.

My parents were worried at first because I didn't do the typical "baby babble". I also didn't ever name the thing I wanted or point to things at the age normal babies do. I simply screamed and cried until my mom figured it out. Apparently I went from saying hardly anything to speaking in full sentences when I turned 2. From that point on I was actually a little ahead for my age.

I didn't know that. I'm a female, spoke in full sentences at a very young age. My mother said people commented on it being unusual, but I was her first child and hadn't thought it was a big deal.

That's similar to what I did. I didn't babble or point, but after I said my first word I progressed quickly and was actually ahead of target. Apparently I was speaking in full sentences when others my age were still in the 2-3 words at a time stage of development.
I think this was because my mum spent everyday at home with me while my dad was at work and because I was an only child, she talked to me practically constantly.